Strategic Planning: Making it Work
Why it Works
Is your organization positioned for long-term success? Having trouble engaging the entire organization in the same direction? Strategic Planning: Making It Work provides a detailed road map for creating successful strategic plans. Comprehensive building blocks include : steps for preparing, developing, implementing, and monitoring a strategic plan for your organization, plus the pitfalls to avoid while constructing it. Our PDI (practical, dynamic and interactive) branded approach provides Practical step-by-step implementation including:
- Checklists to judge the quality of each component of your plan
- Dynamic instruction from carefully selected energetic facilitators, and
- Interactive practice sessions including in-class exercises and team breakout sessions to reinforce your learning.
By bringing an existing plan to class, participants can gain the additional benefit of using the course’s tools to improve their current strategic direction.
Who will benefit from this course?
Ideal For:
- Leaders
- Facilitators
- Representatives of all types of organizations
Needing To:
- Develop Viable Action Plans
- Accomplish Glowth Objectives
- Improving Current Processes
What you will learn
Develop highly effective strategic plans by:
- Defining a mission statement through three powerful steps
- Creating a vision that is both inspiring and compelling
- Developing broad goals outlining the areas for focus
- Establishing specific, measurable, achievable objectives
- Isolating key factors controlling whether or not the organization is successful
- Discovering obstacles standing in the way of implementation
- Developing operating guidelines that shape the culture of the organization
- Using positioning strategies to define and excel in your niche
- Identifying pitfalls to avoid when doing strategic planning
- Utilizing a method for evaluating the quality of a plan
Choose Your Format
With a group of eight or more people, a private class may deliver a better value. With a private class on Strategic Planning: Making it Work, we can customize the course and bring the techniques and tools you need to conduct a virtual meeting to you, at your convenience. Find out how we can tailor this course to meet your needs.
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Find a class date & location.
Please note both live and virtual classes are available.
2024
The Effective Facilitator – 4 Days (In-Person)
Sep 16 – Sep 19 – Atlanta, GA
Sep 23 – Sep 26 – Washington, D.C.
Sep 23 – Sep 26 – Seattle, WA
Sep 30 – Oct 3 – Las Vegas, NV
Oct 14 – Oct 17 – Atlanta, GA
Oct 28 – Oct 31 – Washington, D.C.
Nov 18 – Nov 21 – Washington, D.C.
Dec 2 – Dec 5 – Atlanta, GA
Dec 16 – Dec 19 – Washington, D.C.
The Engaging Trainer – 3 Days (In-Person)
Sep 30 – Oct 2 – Atlanta, GA
Facilitating Masterful Meetings: Virtual Edition – 2 Days
Oct 21 – Oct 22 – Virtual
The Effective Facilitator: Virtual Edition – 4 Days (Eastern)
Nov 4 – Nov 7 – Virtual
Strategies for Managing Business Relationships: Virtual Edition – 3 1/2 Days (1pm-5pm ET)
Oct 29 – Oct 31 – Virtual
The Effective Facilitator: Virtual Edition – 4 Days – Central
Oct 7 – Oct 10 – Virtual
2025
The Effective Facilitator – 4 Days (In-Person)
Jan 21 – Jan 24 – Washington, D.C.
Jan 21 – Jan 24 – Dallas, TX
Jan 27 – Jan 30 – Atlanta, GA
Feb 3 – Feb 6 – Seattle, WA
Feb 18 – Feb 21 – Las Vegas, NV
Feb 18 – Feb 21 – Washington, D.C.
Feb 24 – Feb 27 – Atlanta, GA
Mar 10 – Mar 13 – Chicago, IL
Mar 24 – Mar 27 – Washington, D.C.
Mar 31 – Apr 3 – Atlanta, GA
Apr 7 – Apr 10 – Atlanta, GA
Apr 21 – Apr 24 – Washington, D.C.
May 12 – May 15 – Dallas, TX
May 19 – May 22 – Washington, D.C.
May 19 – May 22 – Seattle, WA
Jun 2 – Jun 5 – Atlanta, GA
Jun 23 – Jun 26 – Washington, D.C.
Facilitator Certification Prep – 2 (In-Person)
Jun 12 – Jun 13 – Atlanta, GA
Secrets to Facilitating Strategy – 3 Days (In-Person)
Apr 15 – Apr 17 – Atlanta, GA
Facilitating Masterful Meetings: Virtual Edition – 2 Days
Mar 3 – Mar 4 – Virtual
From Management to Leadership Virtual Edition – 2 Days
May 13 – May 14 – Virtual
The Effective Facilitator: Virtual Edition – 4 Days (Eastern)
Jan 21 – Jan 24 – Virtual
Feb 10 – Feb 13 – Virtual
Apr 22 – Apr 25 – Virtual
Jun 9 – Jun 12 – Virtual
The Engaging Trainer: Virtual Edition – 3 Days
Apr 7 – Apr 10 – Virtual
Strategies for Managing Business Relationships: Virtual Edition – 3 1/2 Days (1pm-5pm ET)
Apr 29 – May 1 – Virtual
Advanced Facilitation Skills – 3 Day (In-Person)
Jun 9 – Jun 11 – Atlanta, GA
Mastering Hybrid Meetings: Blending Remote and Onsite Teams 1/2 Day (9AM – 1PM ET)
Feb 11 – Feb 11 – Virtual
The Effective Facilitator: Virtual Edition – 4 Days – Central
Mar 10 – Mar 13 – Virtual
May 13 – May 16 – Virtual
Virtual Meetings 101 – The Basics – .5 Days (9am-1pm CT)
May 5 – May 5 – Virtual
